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When man first started to grow crystals he used the ways already perfected in nature, suspending small ‘seed’ crystals of the required material within a supersaturated solution or flux. Although frequently beautiful, the resulting crystals were small and imperfect, containing inclusions, impurities and stacking faults in the crystal lattice.
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Vere, A.W. (1987). Introduction. In: Crystal Growth. Updates in Applied Physics and Electrical Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9897-5_1
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